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The first annual allkpop Awards launched 10 days ago and the voting has been fierce! With the results 100% decided by you, the allkpop readers, and millions of votes already (2.35 million to be exact) – the allkpop Awards is the only true voice for international readers to have a say at who the best of the best are!

With that, below is an update on the standings thus far, but we won’t reveal too much, as we want the final results to be a surprise!

For now, here are the top 5 contenders in each category (random order – because suspense is awesome!):

If you haven’t been voting, no worries, there are still 15 days left and you can vote once per day per category – So get your vote on and have a say on who’s crowned at the first annual 2010 allkpop Awards!

The end of the year is near, and the Korean music industry is abuzz with news of upcoming awards shows that seek to recognize the most outstanding artists in a multitude of categories.

As a nod to these important events in the K-pop realm, allkpop has decided to initiate our first ever “allkpop Awards” this year, and we’re inviting fans from all over the world to determine the results!

That’s right – the votes will be 100% determined by international K-pop fans.

In order to ensure that the results are achieved in a fair manner, we’ve established a system in which votes can be submitted once a day per category via Twitter or Facebook.

Fans can vote as many times as they like over the course of the awards voting period, but again, only one vote per category per day will be counted.

We are aiming to make this an award that accurately represents the opinions of the international K-pop community, so check out the nominees below, and help decide K-pop’s best of 2010!

A controversy has recently been surrounding the ‘2010 Yahoo Asia Buzz Awards’, as many fans are doubting the legitimacy of its online voting system.

Between November 8th and the 30th, Yahoo has been conducting an online poll for three categories:‘Korean Male Buzz Star’, ‘Korean Female Buzz Star’ and ‘Asia’s Buzz Star‘.

The problem that had caught the attention of sharp fans is that the poll results for some nominees had either taken a sharp rise or drop in a spontaneous fashion. For instance, in the ‘Male Buzz Star’ category, Jang Geun Suk’s poll results saw sharp rises and falls at a continuous rate, while a considerable number of votes for Kim Hyun Joong dropped unexepectedly.

Consequently, many netizens are suspecting the poll results to have a substantial error in voting calculations.

Fans have become even more angered by Yahoo’s lack of investigation on this matter, who merely called it a simple ’server error’. Netizens commented, “The globally acknowledged Yahoo doesn’t want to be humiliated in public, which is why they are ignoring the hard work of the fans”, “I want to rebuke Yahoo for their lack of action regarding this issue.”

Responding to such criticism, a representative of Yahoo Korea explained on December 2nd, “There was a problem with the server overloading, however, we have not been able to confirm a manipulation of the poll results. We are still inspecting the reasons behind these errors.”

They carefully continued, “We cannot reveal a correct set of poll results without fully completing our investigation. We cannot confirm anything for now.”

Meanwhile, according to the online poll results on the site, Jang Geun Suk ranked 1st place for the ‘Male Buzz Star’ category for this year’s ‘Buzz Awards’.

The 2010 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) was held overseas for the first time in it’s history, at the Cotai Arena, Venetian Hotel in Macau where a host of stars from Korea and around the world attended, with millions watching it live (or delayed) through tv broadcasts and online streaming sources.

Check out selected photos from the red carpet ceremony ahead of the awards ceremony below!

With the Wonder Girls leading the global girl group trend, their agency(JYP Entertainment) has revealed that they will continue their overseas activities.

According to their representative, the girls will be holding concerts all over Asia, including Korea, but will officially resume their U.S. activities next year.

He stated, “The Wonder Girls are busy up to the end of the year with ‘MULA‘ and ‘JYP Nation Concert.’ Since their schedule for next year is packed with American activities, it will be difficult to see them in Korea for the time being.”

Another large-scale division has emerged in the industry to follow the steps of SM Entertainment’s “SM Town” and YG Entertainment’s “YG Family.”

The artists of JYP Entertainment have come together under the name “JYP Nation.”

YGE and SME have both branded their division names for yearly concerts and overseas activities. For a while, JYPE artists didn’t have a name to unite them under one team like the former two did until they recently came up with the name “JYP Nation.”

2PM, the Wonder Girls,miss A and other JYPE artists seem to be welcoming the new title, withTaecyeon tweeting on November 11th, “The JYP family finally has a title now!! JYP Nation!! I’m extremely glad that we finally have a title like this now!! From now on, we’re JYP Nation!! I was totally jealous of YG Family and SM Town, this is awesome.”

The agency will be using “JYP Nation” as the title of their first collaborative concert this Christmas.

“The artists of JYP Entertainment will be coming together under the name of ‘JYP Nation’ on December 24th for an agency concert titled ‘TEAMPLAY.’ It’ll be a concert worth watching for the 2010 year, please anticipate it,” said a representative of JYP Entertainment.

Korea’s largest online polling site ipoll.kr conducted a poll for “Best Girl Group” from August 23rd to October 3rd. Various girl groups were paired up in brackets with the winner advancing to the next round. The poll was very popular with more than 100,000,000 votes tallied for the entirety of the poll.

The ‘Golden Disk Awards‘has recently revealed their nominees for its 2010 awards ceremony, set to be held on December 9th at Koryeo University.

The awards show first began in 1986, and since then, it’s become Korea’s most prestigious awards ceremony for music. Nicknamed the ‘Korean Grammy Awards,’ the ceremony is known for its fair standards, as the committee utilizes figures from album and digital music sales only.

Due to such simplistic standards, the show is able to feature the truly successful artists that have received the love of the public each year, including the ‘indie’ or ‘underground musicians.

Check out the nominees below!

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Kim Jong Kook
Album: Vol. 6 Eleventh Story
Title Track: “This Person”

DJ DOC
Album: Vol. 7 Taste for the Arts
Title Track: “I’m This Kind of Person”

Lucid Fall
Album: Vol. 4 Les Miserables
Title Track: “Mackerel”

Bobby Kim
Album: Vol. 3 Heart & Soul
Title Track: “Like A Man”

Vibe
Album: Vol. 4 Vibe In Praha
Title Track: “Come Back”

Verandah Project
Album: Vol. 1 Day Off
Title Track: “Bike Riding”

BoA
Album: Vol. 6 Hurricane Venus
Title Track: “Hurricane Venus”

SHINee
Album: Vol. 2 Lucifer
Title Track: “Lucifer”

Super Junior
Album: Vol. 4 Bonamana
Title Track: “Bonamana”

Supreme Team
Album: Vol.1 Supremier
Title Track: “Step Up”

SNSD
Album: Vol. 2 Oh!
Title Track: “Oh!”

Epik High
Album: Epik High / Epilogue
Title Track: “Run”

U-KISS
Album: Vol. 1 U-Kiss Only One Album
Title Track: “Bingeul Bingeul”